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The "Bedford Boys"
In 1941, the day after Pearl Harbor, the men of Company A, 116th Infantry, boarded trucks bound for Fort Meade, Maryland, and federal service. Among them were thirty-eight Guardsmen from Bedford. On June 6, 1944, nineteen of them were killed in Normandy during the landing on Omaha Beach. Bedford's loss was the largest per capita suffered by any American community on D-Day. |